One of the largest mining companies in Queensland, Australia, faced a major challenge. It needed to move a 3,000-ton dragline excavator from one coal mine to another, almost 100 kilometers away. ‘Walking’ there would have caused significant wear-and-tear on the machine, and not allowed the company to take advantage of scheduled rail network shutdowns required to cross critical infrastructure. Mammoet was able to provide a safe, effective solution to load, move and unload the dragline using Self-Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMTs), ensuring the company did not lose out on productivity for this vital piece of mining equipment.

Resource Rage (2010): Tensions are coming to a head in Papua New Guinea over the government's new plan to sell of the country's natural gas.
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The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has made a $16bn deal to extract the country's natural gas. His people have responded with violent protests, which could plunge the troubled nation back into chaos.
"It's just like raping a woman. They're going to rape our resources." The landowners living along the length of the proposed pipeline have been promised huge benefits from the plan to extract gas from the Southern Highlands and export it to Asia. But they don't believe it and are up in arms: in scenes of chaos fuelled by a legacy of watching promised riches pass them by, they cut down power-lines, wielding guns and blocking roads: "You never listen - I'll chop you people".
Ironically, most of the people living in the resource-rich Southern Highlands live without power, without hospitals and without education. The MD of Australian Oil-Search- which has a 29% stake in the project - agreed that the money the government has received in the past has not been seen in resource areas. Project Operator Exxon Mobil refused to comment. But with four dead, the former commander of the PNG Defence Force has confessed to fears that, "we are setting the stage for another Bougainville crisis in the Southern Highlands".
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Jonathan Venditti explains how Klüber Lubrication has developed a unique collaboration platform among our worldwide experts called Global Competence Center for the mining industry. This structure allows for a holistic approach to cooperation with OEMs and customer support in order to offer customized lubrication solutions.
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Not many Americans lived in California, but that soon changed.
By 1849 thousands upon thousands of people arrived in search of gold.
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As recently as 2005, the state of Virginia had eight centers like Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility, housing more than 1,300 delinquent youth. But by 2017, after a series of reforms, that number had shrunk to one.
“It's not that you can't do good work here,” said Andy Block, who, since 2014, has served as the juvenile-justice department’s director. “But the place itself and the design and the size and the location are barriers to doing good work.” Block and others are working to close Bon Air and replace it with something that reflects the juvenile justice reforms that have taken hold in Virginia and across the country—a system that once focused on confinement is now dedicated to rehabilitation. In recent years, more than 70 percent of Virginia's juvenile inmates were rearrested within three years of their release.*
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A massive mining project in central Vietnam has created one of the biggest civil protest movements the country has ever seen.
Domestic media outlets are banned from reporting on the proposed Bauxite mine, which critics say threatens major environmental damage, for little economic benefit.
But Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive pictures of the site, and spoken to some of the people opposed to its development.
Al Jazeera has this report from Vietnam's Central Highlands.
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Pat Murphy's 800ha farm is just over one kilometre from the controversial Maules Creek coal mine. No pollution limits were placed on Pat's land when the Maules Creek mine was approved by New South Wales planning authorities and he says his life is now a 'living nightmare.' Australian Story, ABC, 27 June 2016.
The NSW Government has let the coal mining industry get away with unsafe levels of air and noise pollution for too many years. People that live near coal mines report getting sick, being unable to sleep, and a hard slog to get any help from the Government. Instead of making the companies stick to safe limit of dust and pollution, the Government just tells the coal companies to buy up vast swathes of rural land. But if your place isn't on the list to get bought, you can't get out, you're trapped breathing the dust of NSW's worst neighbours.
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Against the backdrop of a flagging economy and heated debate over sensitive political issues like asylum seekers, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull fired the starting gun on Sunday on one of the longest election campaigns in Australia's history.
Using rarely invoked powers to dissolve both houses of parliament after the upper house Senate repeatedly blocked government legislation, Turnbull officially called federal elections for July 2. This is several months earlier than originally planned.
The federal poll throws up the specter of more political instability in Australia, where infighting among the leading parties has resulted in a revolving door to the top job at a time when Australia is trying to rebalance its economy away from a once-in-a-generation mining boom.
Turnbull is considered a moderate in the conservative Liberal Party-led coalition government. He'd became the fourth leader in two years when he deposed right-wing predecessor Tony Abbott in an internal party coup in September.
He goes to the polls as Australia finally shows signs of a slowdown. The country is renowned for its almost unscathed survival of the global financial crisis
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Spooniversal Studios North Carolina, Asheville music scene. Here's Angels in Heaven, filmed on the Spoon Lady's front porch for PLAY MUSIC ON THE PORCH DAY AUG 26th. Currently, this is one of our favorite songs to play! let us know what you think below in the comments. The next play music on the porch day is August 25, 2018.
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Due to many emails, Chris Rodrigues has decided to sit down and show us through how to play the song Angels in Heaven. Many Churches have sung this song, and many groups have recorded it. Have fun. GOD BLESS. You can find this video here:
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Angels in Heaven Lyrics -
I know, I know I've been changed
I, I know I've been changed lord and I know
I know I've been changed
the angels in heaven done signed my name
the angels in heaven done signed my name
one day one day I was walking along
the angels in heaven done signed my name
I heard a voice I didn't see no one
the angels in Heaven done signed my name
the voice to me you know it sounded so sweet
the angels in heaven done signed my name
it sounded like Jesus talking to me
the angels in heaven done signed my name
and I know, I know I've been changed
I, I know I've been changed lord and I know
I know I've been changed
the angels in heaven done signed my name
the angels in heaven done signed my name
I got my ticket in my right hand
the angels in heaven done signed my name
I'm on my way to the promise land
the angels in heaven done signed my name
if you done believe I've been redeemed
the angels in heaven done signed my name
just follow me down to the Jordan stream
the angels in heaven done signed my name
and I know, I know I've been changed
I, I know I've been changed lord and I know
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It's been a year since giant craters were spotted in the Russian north, capturing the minds of scientists around the world.
They popped up out of nowhere in the Yamal Peninsula, where temperatures can plunge dozens of degrees below zero in winter.
The largest of the holes was found to be more than 60 meters deep.
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The first two potential hurricanes of the season Hurricane Gordon and Hurricane Florence are inbound. La Vagabonde is currently right in the hurricane belt. A lot of people have been wondering about our hurricane plan as a few storms have been popping up. Join us for a chat and the workings behind the captains brain as to how he's going to keep us safe onboard this September/Oct. Cheers.
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Joe Biden said recently that he wants to find a “common ground” solution to climate change, which really means that he isn’t going to do anything about the problem. There is no middle ground on climate change – either we act or we let the planet pass the point of no return. This problem is completely fixable, but not if we try to reach a middle ground with oil companies and others who profit off the destruction of the planet. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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On Friday, Reuters reported the Joe Biden and his presidential campaign, which is still polling in first place no matter which poll you look at. Uh, they're, they're gonna try to come up with some kind of middle ground approach to climate change. They want to find common ground amongst all parties on how best to save the planet. Yeah. Isn't that the kind of feel good, wonderful campaign we've been waiting for after years of Donald Trump's just plain unpleasantness. Let's all get along. Let's find that common ground. Let's have fossil fuel companies sit down at the table with environmentalists and then whatever each side says, we'll come up with something in the middle. Cause that's totally going to solve the climate problem, right? No. Likey has on so many other issues. Joe Biden, absolutely misfired on the issue of climate change, which really is the most important issue in this election. We're running out of time, but there is still time. Okay, we can fix this problem, we can solve it, we can reverse it. And we can be revered as the generation of American citizens as a whole who averted catastrophe.
But we don't have much time. We could fix it. But common ground, middle ground, whatever you want to call it, isn't gonna fix it. Guess who shouldn't have a say at the table? The people who caused the problem. That's the bottom line. We do not need to hear from fossil fuel companies. We don't need to hear from the frackers. We don't need to hear from anyone who's made a dollar off of this crisis. The people we need to hear from are the scientists and engineers who know what the hell they're talking about and know how to get us to a solution. That's pretty much it, right? We need the scientist to tell us how long we have and what needs to happen. You know, our mission goals and all those kinds of things. And then the engineers to tell us how to rebuild the energy infrastructure to support renewable energy, to deliver it a fashion, uh, efficiently. We already know that costs are coming down over renewable energy. It's now more affordable and we need the workers possibly hear me out on this crazy idea. Take the people who are currently working down there in the coal mines with pick axes, you know, extracting that Cole and maybe instead put them to work building solar panels, maybe invest in some kind of public works project that pays for the retraining, pays great wages for these people, gets them out of the coal mines.
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(Manila, September 30, 2015) – The Philippine government is failing to protect children who dig and dive for gold in dangerous small-scale mines, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report and video, released ahead of Children’s Month in the Philippines.

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The Trap investigates how prisons and jails across the United States have become recruiting grounds for human traffickers, who are targeting incarcerated women and trafficking them out of correctional facilities and into pimp-controlled prostitution

WyomingPBS takes cameras aloft to explore the sweeping beauty of the Cowboy State and finds etched on the land, history as vast as its horizons and human stories as intricate as its streams. Narrated by Pete Simpson.

Amateur video captured the moment a sinkhole swallowed a four-lane public intersection on Tuesday (November 8) in Fukuoka City, southern Japan.
The prefectural government is investigating the possibility that the hole may have been caused by an ongoing construction to extend the current subway lines in the city.
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Dakota Pathways: A History was a 20-part series used by Educator's across South Dakota for use in their classrooms. The 14 minute long segments explore some of the history of South Dakota. The Mighty Mo' is the 3rd segment produced in the series.
Waterways
Rivers unite and divide countries. They are liquid barriers and flowing highways. In some places they run through countries; in others, they become the boundaries between nations. Except for Australia and Antarctica, continents have great rivers that determine how and where people live. The Congo, Niger, and Nile shape African topography and culture. The Rhine and Danube doBig Bend Dam was constructed under the Pick- Sloan Plan for development of the Missouri River Basin. Construction on the project began in 1959 and closure of the embankment occurred in July 1963. Photo courtesy The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. the same for Europe; the Volga is synonymous with Russia. In South America the Amazon defines the continent, creating the huge rain forests that cover huge expanses, carrying everything from people to sediment to the ocean. Across Asia the Mekong and Yangtze affect commerce, and in India, the Ganges is a site for religious cleansing. The delta of the Tigris and Euphrates, in Iraq, has often been considered the "cradle of civilization."
As long as there have been civilizations, people have been bridging, damming, channeling—using—rivers to make their lives easier. Of all the ways that rivers can be changed, dams alter the personality and flow of a river more than any other manmade structure. Whole towns have been moved or buried under water when large dams have been constructed. These gigantic lakes, reservoirs, are used for recreation and power generation. With dams, people control flow of the river. Few large rivers, those that consistently flow year round, have not been dammed. In South Dakota, alone, four dams block the Missouri River. A debate continues in the Pacific Northwest about whether to destroy old dams or not. Because they impede salmon migration, dams have been the scourge of fisherman, environmentalists, and Native American tribes.
Water and rivers usually mean life. Like people, animals are drawn to rivers. Many of the world's wide variety of plants can be found along the banks of great rivers—most notably tropical rivers like the Amazon. As early explorers, like Lewis and Clark, traveled up and down big rivers into unknown reaches, they discovered dozens of new species along the banks. Though they can have an awesome destructive force when they flood, rivers regularly and normally flood as part of a natural cycle. As much as man tries to harness rivers, they still meander, changing their courses as if they have minds of their own.
The longest waterway in the United States, and fourth longest in the world, is the Missouri-Mississippi system, running from the headwaters of the Missouri in Montana to Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico—more than 3,800 miles. Technically, the Missouri River flows from the Rocky Mountains in the west to its confluence with the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, passing through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, forming the border between Iowa and Nebraska and part of the border between Kansas and Missouri before bending east through the heart of the Show Me State.

When The Time Comes - a song about using the lives of desperate people as a political vote-scoring football...a song about whether we choose to be brainwashed into being racists or not...a song about loving or fearing those far from you...

There are times to regret the amount of dash cams on the road recording our every mistake but this truck driver must be chuffed the car behind had their camera working.
Explaining to the boss that your cement truck fell into a large sink-hole works a lot better knowing there is video evidence.
Sinkholes are depressions or craters caused after the collapse of the surface layer and can vary in diameter from one to 600m.
The cause of such rare incidents can vary from the collapse of a disused mine shaft to to ruptured sewage pipes.
Needless to say, this truck driver will never look at a road the same ever again.

Full website post here, with links and graphics explanation:
http://dutchsinse.com/2102014-new-polar-vortex-coming-southern-snow-overall-global-cooling/
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The "polar vortex" which has been dominating the scene (in North America) is beginning to press Eastward across Greenland, bringing major winter weather to Northern Europe.
As this is happening, we are seeing a NEW large "polar vortex" form just Southwest of Alaska. This new dominating flow will press Southeast towards North America.
The next "vortex"... just like the previous Canadian event over the past several weeks.. consists of multiple large low pressure systems, combined around a massive Polar rotation, will continue to reach further South into the United States.
This continued reach Southward will again be bringing freezing cold temperatures to the Southern states (New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and possibly even Florida again.
The cold temps also bring the threat of snow / ice / sleet to these same areas (again).
As these low pressure systems rotate counter clockwise, they are taking gulps of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, and also literally shearing off the tops of systems at the equator. These influxes of tropical moisture dragged up from the South, are mixing with the unusual cold temperatures in these states, causing repeat snow / ice events in places only used to possibly seeing one event every few years.
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See tatoott1009's video exposing the actual icepack at the poles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZivinYGXVQ
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Use the links here to monitor severe weather nationally, and internationally:
Streaming RADAR / feeds :
http://dutchsinse.com/live-feeds-radar-eq-solar-radiation/
Dozens of weather agencies, and private companies providing weather data:
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/2122012-weather-monitoring-links-satellite-and-radar-for-usa-and-world/
Links shown in the video:
College of Dupage :
http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/index.php
Intellicast:
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx
Cryosphere today:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

Dr. Matthew Moran and Dr. Maureen McClung of Hendrix College share the findings and recommendations from their June 2017 paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on the impacts of fracking on landscapes and ecosystem services in the U.S.

In which John Green teaches you about the Wild, Wild, West, which as it turns out, wasn't as wild as it seemed in the movies. When we think of the western expansion of the United States in the 19th century, we're conditioned to imagine the loner. The self-reliant, unattached cowpoke roaming the prairie in search of wandering calves, or the half-addled prospector who has broken from reality thanks to the solitude of his single-minded quest for gold dust. While there may be a grain of truth to these classic Hollywood stereotypes, it isn't a very big grain of truth. Many of the pioneers who settled the west were family groups. Many were immigrants. Many were major corporations. The big losers in the westward migration were Native Americans, who were killed or moved onto reservations. Not cool, American pioneers.
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Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. America’s Westward expansion was fueled by both Manifest Destiny and a desire to grow the nation and its resources — though at a cost: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/manifest-destiny
As Americans continued to stream West on the name of Manifest Destiny, American Indians saw their lives changed forever as they moved from practising resistance to lives on reservations: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/from-resistance-to-reservations